The Man Farthest Down: A Record of Observation and Study in Europe |
Contents
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From Petticoat Lane to Skibo Castle | 37 |
First Impression of Life and Labour on the Continent | 53 |
Politics and Races | 70 |
Strikes and Farm Labour in Italy and Hungary | 86 |
Naples and the Land of the Emigrant | 105 |
The Labourer and the Land in Sicily | 124 |
Fiume Budapest and the Immigrant | 217 |
Cracow and the Polish Jew | 240 |
A Polish Village in the Mountains | 264 |
A Russian Border Village | 276 |
The Women Who Work in Europe | 296 |
The Organization of Country Life in Denmark | 319 |
Reconstructing the Life of the Labourer in London | 341 |
John Burns and the Man Farthest Down in London | 360 |
Women and the Wine Harvest in Sicily | 148 |
The Church the People and the Mafia | 166 |
Child Labour and the Sulphur Mines | 192 |
The Future of the Man Farthest Down | 377 |
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